Fatima Sharafeddine
Fatima Sharafeddine ( Arabic فاطمة شرف الدين, DMG Fāṭima Šaraf ad-Dīn ; * 1966 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese writer and children's book author.
Live and act
Sharafeddine came of age during the Lebanese Civil War . After getting married, she moved to the United States in the late 1980s and lived in Ohio and Texas. She currently (spring 2020) lives with her family in Brussels, where she works as a writer and translator. In 2010 her novel Die Dienerin was published ; he tells the story of Faten, around 15 years old, who is forced to leave her village school to become a maid in Beirut but is determined to follow her dream and study in secret to become a nurse. In 2010 he was awarded the prize for the best book at the International Book Fair in Beirut. Ghadi and Rawan , a book about a boy in Belgium and his childhood friend in Lebanon, came about with the writer Samar Mahfouz Barrage . In 2017 she presented cappuccino ; the book tells about the 17 year old Anas and Lina and their family secrets. The work was awarded the Etisalat Prize for Arabic children's literature.
Fatima Sharafeddine has received numerous awards, including the 2007 award for the best children's book of the year from the National Committee for Children's Books for Mountain Rooster , the IBBY-Lebanon and Beirut World Book Capital Award for My Skirt in 2010, and the Anna Lindh Award for The Book of Laughter in 2011 and Crying and 2012 the Arab Thought Foundation ARABI 21 for Grandpa's Donkey .
Publications (selection)
- Arabic-English Picture Dictionary for the Very Young (Kalimat Publishing, 2009)
- Fi Medinati Harb (French title Chez Moi C'est La Guerre )
- Ghadi and Rawan (2013)
- Lisanak Hisanak (2016), Bologna Ragazzi Award ("New Horizons")
- Mimi in Paris (Bloomsbury, 2016)
- Cappuccino (2017)
Translations into German
- Fatima Sharafeddine and Vincent Hardy (Ill.): Nina and the cat , Brunnen Verlag, Giessen 2009
Web links
- Web presence
- arablit.org interview with Fatima Sharafeddine on the subject of the "writing process", using the example of her work Cappuccino (2016), interviewer: Yasmine Motawy, in English
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ilham Essalih: The best YA books: 10 Middle East authors worth reading - Young Adult literature is drawing inspiration from the Middle East and North Africa. Middle East Eye, July 12, 2019, accessed March 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Fatima Sharafeddine in conversation
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sharafeddine, Fatima |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lebanese writer and children's book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beirut |